000147979 001__ 147979 000147979 005__ 20250110163828.0 000147979 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1111/pirs.12037 000147979 0248_ $$2sideral$$a82244 000147979 037__ $$aART-2015-82244 000147979 041__ $$aeng 000147979 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0002-2023-5726$$aGonzález-Val, R.$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000147979 245__ $$aSize Distributions for All Cities: Which One is Best? 000147979 260__ $$c2015 000147979 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000147979 5203_ $$aThis paper analyses four statistical distributions used to describe city size distributions: lognormal, double Pareto lognormal, q‐exponential, and log‐logistic. We use un‐truncated city size data for the US, Spain and Italy from 1900 until 2010, and, in addition, the last available year for the remaining countries of the OECD. We estimate the four functions by maximum likelihood. To check the goodness of the fit we use the Kolmogorov‐Smirnov and Cramér‐von Mises tests, and compute the Akaike information criterion and Bayesian information criterion. The results show that the distribution which best fits data in most of the cases (86.76%) is the double Pareto lognormal. 000147979 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby-nc-nd$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 000147979 590__ $$a1.144$$b2015 000147979 591__ $$aECONOMICS$$b125 / 341 = 0.367$$c2015$$dQ2$$eT2 000147979 591__ $$aGEOGRAPHY$$b42 / 77 = 0.545$$c2015$$dQ3$$eT2 000147979 591__ $$aENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES$$b72 / 104 = 0.692$$c2015$$dQ3$$eT3 000147979 592__ $$a0.894$$b2015 000147979 593__ $$aGeography, Planning and Development$$c2015$$dQ1 000147979 593__ $$aEnvironmental Science (miscellaneous)$$c2015$$dQ1 000147979 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 000147979 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0003-2618-1535$$aRamos A.$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000147979 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0003-3725-0022$$aSanz-Gracia F.$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000147979 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0001-8973-6804$$aVera-Cabello M. 000147979 7102_ $$14000$$2415$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Análisis Económico$$cÁrea Fund. Análisis Económico 000147979 773__ $$g94, 1 (2015), 177-197$$pPap. reg. sci.$$tPapers in Regional Science$$x1056-8190 000147979 8564_ $$s436891$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/147979/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yVersión publicada 000147979 8564_ $$s1643207$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/147979/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yVersión publicada 000147979 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:147979$$particulos$$pdriver 000147979 951__ $$a2025-01-10-14:24:20 000147979 980__ $$aARTICLE